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tntypography:
Hi, thanks for getting back to me again. I've run your tool with the default settings, but will run it again with all options enabled.

Thanks a lot for the link to the image, I didn't know it was related to SP1 and will give this a shot soon.

I'll report here on outcomes...

Anoop:
Hello!!!

May I know is that a Intel Processor or an AMD.

If its an Intel, please go ahead and Install Intel Rapid storage driver that will take care of the issue.


If its an AMD, you have to perform repair Installation of the operating system.

tntypography:
Thanks for the suggestions, here's a summary for other people having the same issue:

1 - I tried Shane's tool with all repairs activated, without effect.
2 - I tried to run the repair install, it went through all the motions to report at the end that this version of Win cannot be installed on my hardware, which is obviously bogus.
3 - I tried the Intel drivers, which completely broke my Win install, preventing it from starting.

Eventually I resorted to re-image my system, with the positive news that it does not delete the full contents of your drive (contrary to many statements floating around online), but only the backed-up partition. Hence, a setup with a System and a Data partition can be quite painlessly restored this way. In my particular case, unfortunately my image already had the update issue, so I still did a clean install.

The bottom line is that the fresh install, or ideally re-imaging from a working image are less time consuming that countless frustrating attempts at repairs. Of course, this only applies if you are not risking any data loss. So my suggestion is bite the bullet straight away.

Shane:
Sometimes things get corrupted to deeply in Windows and a reinstall is the only answer.

90% of problems in Windows come down to settings in the registry. There is on average 1 million+ keys in the registry. And a lot of these keys are very different on each system. Such as drivers, hardware and things like that.

And so as the repair program grows I can only add reg keys that are the same on every system. The ones that are unique to the machine are done when you do the Windows setup.

While my repair tool will grow and get better it can never be perfect and fix everything because of this. But it has helped a lot of people from having to do reinstalls. But sometimes the mess is to deep and a reinstall is the only answer :wink:

You know one thing I never understood. Microsoft has their setup make the reg keys that are unique to the machine during install. Why wouldn't they just make an option to rescan and redo those keys just like the installer would? I guess we will never know :-)

Shane

tntypography:
Hi Shane,
I'm sorry if I gave the impression of blaming you or your tool. That was not my intention at all. It's great that it's out there and it's great that it can help fix issues, no doubt about it. I realise that it cannot fix everything, such is Windows live, I guess. ;)
If I'd have another problem like this, I surely would give it at shot again. Maybe just not spent as much time browsing the web for solutions.
Cheers

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